page_title: Chinese Culture Center
section_title: Founding and building
hierarchical_section_title: Chinese Culture Center / History / Founding and building
caption_attribution_description: Bridge To Chinese Culture Center
context_page_description: The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, California, United States, is a community-based, non-profit organization established in 1965 as the operations center of the Chinese Culture Foundation.
  The CCC’s activities have shifted focus throughout its existence. In the 2010s the center focused on contemporary art exhibitions and interventions, under the vestige of the CCC Visual Arts Center, as well as on radical, social justice education initiatives, under the vestige of the Him Mark Lai Learning Center.
  The Center is located inside the Hilton San Francisco Financial District, at 750 Kearny Street, #3, San Francisco, CA, 94108.
context_section_description: The city government put up city-owned land that formerly housed the Hall of Justice for sale. As a compromise, founder J.K. Choy struck a deal with the developer for a 20,000 square foot facility dedicated to community cultural activities.
  The Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco incorporated on October 15, 1965. Another compromise led to the modification of the planned Portsmouth Square Pedestrian Bridge to accommodate the future activities. Holiday Inn was completed in January 1971, while the bridge was completed in August 1971. After some political tensions between CCF and the heavily Nationalist majority faction in Chinatown, work began on the Chinese Culture Center facilities on January 27, 1973.
caption: Bridge from Portsmouth Square (seen on top) to the Hilton hotel building which houses the Chinese Culture Center
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